Jan
25
Welcome Back!
January 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dear UPA’ers, Hey there, and welcome back for the Spring semester! I hope your breaks were restful and full of the comfort that only family and close friends can provide. Before we carry on with our normal weekly routine, I want to announce our new co-president: Kyle Landrum. Kyle attended meetings regularly and was consistently [...]
Jan
20
What is the Future of Philosophy?
January 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Dear Friends, We invite you to join us for the first meeting of the semester! Friday, January 21, 2011 4:30PM Garrison Hall 0.128 In our first meeting we will discuss John Searle’s paper, “The Future of Philosophy.” Searle is Slusser Professor of Philosophy at UC-Berkeley. He is well known for his contributions to the philosophy [...]
Oct
14
John Searle on Perception
October 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hey everybody! This week we’re going to read a chapter from Searle’s book Mind. The topic of the chapter is perception. In this article Searle considers the sense-data theory of perception and offers an alternative he calls direct realism. This article should be really interesting and it is the second meeting we’ve devoted to the [...]
Oct
3
UPA October Announcements
October 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
-We hope you enjoyed our first graduate student lecture by Tomas Bogardus. We would like to thank everyone who came! We will announce another graduate student lecture in the near future. -For those of you who attended any part of the Fifth UNAM-UT conference, be sure to tell everyone about it in our next meeting. [...]
Sep
23
UPA’s First Grad Student Talk of the semester!
September 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Dear Philosophers, This Friday we are having our first major event of the semester! We are having our first graduate student talk by Tomas Bogardus. Tomas will be giving a talk on personal identity. We invite you to join us in our next meeting with all of your questions and comments: Friday, September 24, 2010 [...]